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Your A-List: Best Smoothie
(A note of full disclosure: I am good friends with Daily Juice co-owner Matt Shook.)
Few places in Austin feature the character(s) and passion for product as the Daily Juice, winner of this week’s Your A-List poll.
Former employees of what was once called the Juice Joint, Shook and his partner Keith Wahrer opened Daily Juice on Barton Springs Road almost six years ago, and have since taken their love of fruits, vegetables, natural foods and exotic elixirs to new locations: Lake Austin Boulevard and Duval Street in Hyde Park.
Daily Juice offers a wide variety of organic vegetable and fruit juices and smoothies. Customers can make their own or order from a broad array of juices and smoothies already devised by the juice masterminds. The store also carries delicious vegetarian and vegan food products, from the Vegan Snicker Doodle to an assortment of treats offered by Baraka Foods Co., a natural food company owned by Daily Juice co-owner Keith Wahrer. Additionally, the newest Juice location in Hyde Park offers a raw foods cafe.
I spoke with Shook earlier today about the Juice’s second win in a row. And he had the following to say: “We are an Austin original. We represent Austin: historic old building, fun staff, seriously good quality, and close to the soul of the city — Barton Springs.”
In addition to keeping Austin’s health-conscious residences packed full of vitamins and nutritional information, the Juice has also made its mark on the community — throwing epic impromptu parties such as the one following the Saturday of the Austin City Limits Festival last year and hosting cocktail nights at the Belmont last spring.
Daily Juice [New Web site]
625 Barton Springs Rd.
480-9501
4500 Duval St
380-9046
2307 Lake Austin Blvd.
628-0782
Others receiving votes
- Whole Foods, 24 percent
- Central Market, 9 percent
- Jungle Juice, 9 percent
- Amy’s, 7 percent
- Maui Wowi, 3 percent
- Flipnotics, 3 percent
- Wheatsville, 3 percent
- MamboBerry, 2 percent
- Zoombaz, 2 percent
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By FBA
February 19, 2009 9:27 AM | Link to this
i luv to get shook-a-fied vs institutionalized at holier than thou foods; but my last visit did set me back $22. If only his bro Austin styles would pour me Morgan style zentrification…
Robin Leach
Mateo I don’t understand the A list? Why does Barnes rate nuevo leon and leave out crown adn anchor? maybe becasue dudley likes him?